The Guardado surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 12,656 people carried this name — #2,848 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 23,300 people counted. That is up 63% from 7,769 in 2000.

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In Argentina’s national register

At least 133 people named Guardado live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 49
Corrientes 37
Chaco 21
City of Buenos Aires 16
Córdoba 10

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

23 people named Guardado live in Switzerland.

They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Fribourg.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Fribourg 7
Vaud 7
Geneva 5
Bern 4

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In print

Guardado in American newspapers,
1928.

Newspaper page from La Opinión carrying the name Guardado
La Opinión 1928-04-13

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.

Who carried it

People named Guardado,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Bernardo Guardado 1913–1982 · writer
  • Mercedes Vostell 1933–2023 · writer
  • Mercedes Vostell 1933–2023 · writer

Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Guardado,
in the records of 3 countries.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States162 records

162 records of the Guardado name in the United States
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 140
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 12
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 8
  • U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Edward L. Guardado

    Born 1922 in California. Enlisted 1945 at New Castle, Delaware; doorman. U.S. Army Air Forces veteran of World War II; died 1997, buried at Riverside National Cemetery, California.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. Names engraved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.
    Example: U.S. war memorial
    War record Rudolph Guardado

    Born 1949; from Los Angeles, California. U.S. Marine Corps, warehouse clerk; died in an accident 1969 in Quang Tri, South Vietnam.

    U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
  3. The receipt card sent under the U.S. Alien Registration Act of 1940
    Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s
    Alien registration Fermina Guardado

    Born 1882 in Mexico. Registered as a foreign national in Riverside, California, under the Alien Registration Act of 1940.

    U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain)

Showing 3 of 162 records for Guardado in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form AR-3, photo by Bobjgalindo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

France3 records

3 records of the Guardado name in France France's national death register, 1970–2001
  1. A page of the death register of Nice, 1930
    Example: French death register, 1930
    Death record Manuel Guardado

    Born 1940 in Portugal; died 1999 in Narbonne (Aude).

    Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)
  2. A page of the death register of Nice, 1930
    Example: French death register, 1930
    Death record Eugenio Guardado

    Born 1948 in Portugal; died 1995 in Rognac (Bouches-du-Rhône).

    Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)

Showing 2 of 3 records for Guardado in France.

Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).

Australia1 record

1 record of the Guardado name in Australia Victoria wills and probate, deaths to 2001
  1. A petition to the probate court of St. Louis, 1848
    Example: probate petition, 1848
    Probate record Evelio Guardado

    Unemployed of North Coburg, Victoria; died 1995.

    Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0)

Counts: Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Petition to the probate court, St. Louis, 1848, Missouri Historical Society (public domain).

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Surnames next to Guardado.

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